One for the spelling police

[whoami]

singlecoil said:

whoami said:

singlecoil said:

Censorious said:

Fortunately, the old chaps ticker must have been in decent order (or he was a bit mutton).

Being old, he could hardly have been lamb.

Did you mean to post in the apostrophe thread?

Nope. The clue is in my comment. It's to do with rhyming slang.

I know.

Mutton is perfectly acceptable as a contraction of Mutt and Jeff.

[singlecoil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_and_Jeff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt

There's no demonstrable relationship between 'Mutt' and 'mutton'. Their sharing their first four letters is coincidental.

Mutt'n (being a contraction of Mutt and Jeff) would have been ok, if a bit odd. The proper contraction of 'Mutt and Jeff' is 'Mutt'.

[whoami]

singlecoil said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_and_Jeff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt

There's no demonstrable relationship between 'Mutt' and 'mutton'. Their sharing their first four letters is coincidental.

Mutt'n (being a contraction of Mutt and Jeff) would have been ok, if a bit odd. The proper contraction of 'Mutt and Jeff' is 'Mutt'.

In your first link it clearly confirms my point.

Also see;

http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/mutton

[singlecoil]

whoami said:

singlecoil said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_and_Jeff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt

There's no demonstrable relationship between 'Mutt' and 'mutton'. Their sharing their first four letters is coincidental.

Mutt'n (being a contraction of Mutt and Jeff) would have been ok, if a bit odd. The proper contraction of 'Mutt and Jeff' is 'Mutt'.

1) In your first link it clearly confirms my point.

2) Also see;

http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/mutton

1) I don't think it does, unless you are referring to Jeff's mutton chops (again, a coincidence)

2) Perhaps you should send in a correction.

I daresay many people do think the mutton is a contraction of Mutt and Jeff, but they are as wrong as the people who believe that decimate is the equivalent of destroy.

[whoami]

singlecoil said:

whoami said:

singlecoil said:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_and_Jeff

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt

There's no demonstrable relationship between 'Mutt' and 'mutton'. Their sharing their first four letters is coincidental.

Mutt'n (being a contraction of Mutt and Jeff) would have been ok, if a bit odd. The proper contraction of 'Mutt and Jeff' is 'Mutt'.

1) In your first link it clearly confirms my point.

2) Also see;

http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/mutton

1) I don't think it does, unless you are referring to Jeff's mutton chops (again, a coincidence)

2) Perhaps you should send in a correction.

I daresay many people do think the mutton is a contraction of Mutt and Jeff, but they are as wrong as the people who believe that decimate is the equivalent of destroy.

I don't need to send in a correction as it's already there.

Copied from your link supporting your point of view

"In rhyming slang, "mutton" is used as a shortening of "Mutt'n'Jeff", meaning "deaf"".

Oh, and you conveniently ignored the link I supplied.

Apology accepted.

[Hilts]

I love these spelling police tear ups.

[whoami]

Hilts said:

I love these spelling police tear ups.

This one's just laughable.

[singlecoil]

whoami said:

stuff

It doesn't look as if we are going to find any areas of agreement on this particular issue. I can live with that.

[Digger]

singlecoil said:

whoami said:

stuff

It doesn't look as if we are going to find any areas of agreement on this particular issue. I can live with that.

Another beautiful example of a SC'ism.

[whoami]

singlecoil said:

whoami said:

stuff

It doesn't look as if we are going to find any areas of agreement on this particular issue. I can live with that.

Priceless.

[whoami]

GTIR said:

When I was locked up (80's, car offenses) I was a cleaner and met them when they were out. Just normal people really, even the young lad who was shagging his older sister!

[goldblum]

whoami said:

I know.

Mutton is perfectly acceptable as a contraction of Mutt and Jeff.

No, it isn't. If you're using the term 'contraction' in it's grammatical application, which as this is SP I assume you are, you most certainly cannot add 'on' to 'mutt'. Note your cockerney link said 'shortening' not 'contraction'. The fact is that a grammatically correct contraction of 'mutt and' would be 'mutt'nd...'.

If your post had read "Mutton is perfectly acceptable as a shortening of Mutt and Jeff [in rhyming slang]" you would have had a point.

[goldblum]

Hilts said:

I love these spelling police tear ups.

Why's that then?

[Digger]

goldblum said:

Hilts said:

I love these spelling police tear ups.

Why's that then?

Because cockney. That's why.

[whoami]

goldblum said:

whoami said:

I know.

Mutton is perfectly acceptable as a contraction of Mutt and Jeff.

No, it isn't. If you're using the term 'contraction' in it's grammatical application, which as this is SP I assume you are, you most certainly cannot add 'on' to 'mutt'. Note your cockerney link said 'shortening' not 'contraction'. The fact is that a grammatically correct contraction of 'mutt and' would be 'mutt'nd...'.

If your post had read "Mutton is perfectly acceptable as a shortening of Mutt and Jeff [in rhyming slang]" you would have had a point.

It's getting better...

[goldblum]

Digger said:

goldblum said:

Hilts said:

I love these spelling police tear ups.

Why's that then?

Because cockney. That's why.

Haha. As this is SP:

http://youtu.be/5BV8KfpE3BA

[goldblum]

whoami said:

It's getting better...

Fair cop.

[whoami]

goldblum said:

whoami said:

It's getting better...

Fair cop.

Let's face it, it's all just a bit of a laugh.

[goldblum]

goldblum said:

Digger said:

goldblum said:

Hilts said:

I love these spelling police tear ups.

Why's that then?

Because cockney. That's why.

Haha. As this is SP:

http://youtu.be/5BV8KfpE3BA

Or maybe Chris:
http://youtu.be/4VdCsXuccgU

[Magic919]

Neil - YVM said:

The car went through an mot approx 50 miles before I bought it, so unless the bolts where loose, rather than inadiquantly torqued, then I doubt an inspection would have found anything amiss. No inspection or MOT checks that all the nuts are correctly torqued.